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E. E. CLAUSSEN.

PAPER BAG MACHINE.

Patented De.c. 6, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD E. GLAUSSEN, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO FELIX W. LEINBAOH AND CLARENCE A. \VOLLE, BOTH OF BETHLEHEM, PENN- SYLVANIA.

PAPER-BAG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 37%,315, dated December 6, 1887.

Application filed March 7, 1887. Serial No. 229,905. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it ntcty concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD E. CLAUSSEN, of Hartford, Connecticut, have invented an Improvementin Paper Bag Machines, of w hich the following description and claim constitute the specification, and which is illustrated by the accompanying sheet of drawings.

This invention is an apparatus for forcing the middle of a paper-bag blank away from the to are or plane of the bed on which it is lyingin the machine wherein it is being made into a paper bag, and thus retracting the forward end of the bag-blank along the surface of the bed on which it is lying, in order to cause other 1 devices appurtenant to the bed to perform other operations upon that blank.

This apparatus and its proper environment in a paper-bag machine are shown in Figs. and 36 of the drawings of Letters Patent of the United States, No. 361,951, granted to Lorenz and Honiss, on a paper-bag machine, April 26, 1887, and the same matter is described in the accompanying specification, but is not claimed therein.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side view of my invention and its proper environment; and Fig. 2 is a like view of the same matter, but with the parts in another position, while Fig. 3 is a section on the line a b of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 0 dot the same figure.

The numeral-1 indicates a radially-sliding retracting-finger. This finger slides in the groove 2 in the cylinder 180 and receives a reciprocating motion from the sector 5, meshing into a rack out upon the finger. This sector is pivoted upon the shaft 7, and is preferably provided with the arm 8, the outer end of which is provided with the stud 9 and the roller 10. That roller runs in the cam-groove 11 in the cam-disk 12, and that disklis fixed to the hub 13 of the bracket 183, so as to be at all times stationary. The paper-bag blank 14 has its rear end pressed down upon the periphery of the cylinder by the presser 15. A dupli- 5 cation of the parts numbered 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 is preferably placed on the diametricallyopposite side of the cylinder 180, and is also worked by the cam-groove 11. The other parts shown in the drawings are identical with the corresponding'parts shown and described in said Letters Patent of Lorenz and Honiss, and are illustrated here merely to show the connection of my apparatus with their paper-bag machine.

The mode of operation of my invention is as follows: Each time the cylinder 180 revolves the cam 12 forces the finger 1 through the intermediate connection, to slide outward from the position shown in Fig. 1 to that shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and then to return to the position shown in Fig. 1., That operation forces the middle of the paperbag blank 14 away from the periphery of the cylinder 180, for the purpose hereinbefore described.

This invention can be applied to a reciprocating blank-carrying carriage, instead of to the cylinder 180, by substituting a simple stationary inclined plane for the cam 12.

I claim as myinvention The combination of the finger 1, the sector 5, and the cam 12, with the presser 15 and a blanlecarrying carriage, substantially as described, all constructed, arranged, and adapted to retract the forward end of the bag-blank, in the manner set forth.

Signed at Hartford, Connecticut, March 1,

ED\VARD E. OLAUSSEN.

Witnesses:

ALBERT H. WALKER, FRANK H. PIERPONT. 

